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loo

/lu/ noun C2
  1. The penalty paid to the pool in lanterloo for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick. (uncountable)
  2. An act that prompts such a penalty. (uncountable)
  3. A game of lanterloo. (uncountable)
  4. Any group of people. (figuratively, uncountable)
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On entering the drawing-room, she found the whole party at loo, and was immediately invited to join them; but suspecting them to be playing high, she declined it, and making her sister the excuse, said she would amuse herself, for the short time she could stay below, with a book.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 39 · B2
The loo table, however, did not appear.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 50 · B2

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